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o 0') 0') he pondered retirement. "I thought if he had no good news I might as well retire." says Johnson. "If Icouldn'twin I might as 'w e ll have hung it up ." Dr. Keiffer. a professional road racer. told Johnson the wrist would heal arid Johnson's fighting back to form . "There's nothing I can do now but (work to) strengthen it." (Continued from page 47) ...... follow the National MX and Super'" cross circuit will be on ha nd both days and they include Honda regional CR Support manager Steve Carter and Scott USA's Bevo Forte. In addition to door prizes, two grand prizes will be awarded: first grand prize consists of two paddock passes for Camel Motorcycle Week at Daytona, and the second grand prize winner will receive two reserved gra ndstand tickets to the Daytona . Supercross, Honda of Atlanta is located northeast of the stadium at 4230 Buford Highway. For more informati on, call 404/633-9171. The AMA has inked a deal with 24 Hour Motorsports. a "900" telephone service. that will make AMA race results available within hours of the completion of major races. Calls to 900/860-9077 cost $2 for the first minute and $1 for each additional minute. To save time (and money). when your call is answered and a "menu" description starts. touch the number 7 to be connected to the AMA menu. For MX and supercross info rmat io n. touch 1; for Camel Pro Series results. touch 2. and for AMA road race results. touch 3 . The MX/supercross line is operating; race results of Camel Pro Series dirt track events and AMA road race events will be available beginning with the Daytona races. . Three-time Camel Pro Champion Bubba Shobert will represent Hon da a t the February 24 Spring Open House at Anderson Sales and Service in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, near . Pon tiac. Selected American Honda service, sales and parts management personnel will also be on hand. Shobert will be available to sign autographs and is expected to introduce the"I 990 Honda RC30 at 1\ a.m., pendi ng a late February release of the bike. For more information; call 313/858-2300. Jim Cox. the top-ranked road racer in the AMA/CCS Southwest Region last year. suffered a broken femur in a road race crash on February 4. Cox and his wife. Dawn. have expressed appreciation for "the support and assistance they received from racers. friends and family." Cox is recovering at home in Las Vegas. Nevada. . According to Pat Alexan der, Suzuki race support crews will be on hand at both the amateur and pro Seattle Supercross races on February 17, th e February 17-1 8 Cin cin nati Arenacross, the February 24-25 ama teur and pro Atlanta Supercross events, and the fina l round of the CMC Golden State Nation al MX Series at Sa n Bern ard in o, Ca liforn ia, on February 25. 58 Multi-time Supercross and National champ Rick Johnson says he came close to retiring when a doctor told him he should no longer ride due to his wrist problems. During a flight he took earlier this month to consult another surgeon. Dr . David Keiffer of Wyoming. Johnson said Although T y Davis is now a privat eer Honda rid er, th e San Diego Supercross l25cc class winner got a little extra help from his former employer, Suzuki . Davis .has been using last year's works Suzuki forks on his Honda, but when he made some remarks abo ut hi s former employer following the H ou ston Supercross, Suzuki asked Davis to return all of his Suzuk i equipment. After talks with former Suzuki race team ma nager Pa t Alexander, Davis was allowed to keep the forks for the San Diego event. "I didn't have my stock Honda forks ready for the race, so Pat was nice eno ugh let me use the Suzuki ones ton ight," said Davis. Rice Honda of La Puente. California. and Chapter C1-1 of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association will host a benefit ride for the City of Bell Gardens' DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program on Sunday. April 8. For more information call 818/965-2216. 714/599-2083 or 714 /861 2707. Dunlop T ires has pos ted conti ngencies for the 1990 American Road Racing Associa tion Miller High Li fe Formula On e Grand Pr ix Series. Racers who finish first th rou gh th ird on Dunlop tires a t any of the 12 scheduled series rounds will receive $250, $150 and $100, respectively; the series titie is worth an addi tional $1000. For more information contact Dun lop's Jim Allen at 716/773 -8218. Suzuki has re leased its 1990 road race contingency program. which it says offers grass roots-level support in as wide a geographic area as possible. The Suzuki National Cup program will include payouts in 72 sprint events. plus an expanded payout in AMA/ CCS 600 and 750cc Supersport Nationals, including a $10,000 bonus for the 750cc Supersport Championship. Associate sponsors in.cl ude Dunlop. Metzeler. Bates. Vanson. Yoshimura and Motu!. New th is year w ill be posted contingencies plus a $10.000 Championship bonus for the WERA Formula USA Series. Contingencies w ill a lso be paid in both the AMA /CCS and WERA Endurance Series. w ith $10.000 bonuses for class championships in the GTO and Heavyweight Superbike classes. respectively. For more information call U.S. Suzuki at 714/996-7040, ext. 309. T his year's WERA Formula USA Series, which gets underway April 29 at Will ow Springs Intern ati onal Raceway in Rosamond, California, will featu re bon uses for riders who pre-enter at least 45 days in advance. The plan effectively doubles the purse fo r riders finishin g fi rst through 15th , provided they've met the 45-day pre-entry requirement. Additionall y, race and/or cha mpion ship contingencies have been posted by the followin g compa nies in a variety of \VERA Pro Series classes: Suzuki, Yamah a, Hon da, AGV, RK, Bieffe, Dunl op, Vance & Hines, Arai and Kerker; ot her contingency programs are expected from Ontario. Mikuni, Megacycle, EBC, Shoei and Metzeler. For a complete contingency breakdown, contact the WERA a t 803/68I -WERA. French road racer Veronique Parisot is seeking a superbike ride for the Daytona 200. Parisot is . best-known for teaming ' with Canadian racers Kathleen Coburn and Toni Sharpless in the 1988 Bo l d'Or - the first~ever allfemale effort in that race - where they finished 37th. Interested parties can phone Parisot in France at 011 -33-39-51 -46-17. or by fax at 011-33-49-31 -0515. The AMA has I~ed that a proposal to require motorcyclists to carry mandatory health _insura nce i n Maryland may be introduced in the General Assembly this legi slat ive session. Recen tly, the State Department of Health and Menta l Hygiene (DHM H) asked Governor Donald Schaefer to endorse a bill that would make so-called "catastrophic health insurance" comp ulsory for all Maryland motorcycles . DH MH officials claim that the proposed legislation will save the state $3.9 milli on in unreimbursed medica l assistance funds since the costs for caring for motorcycle accident victims would .be pai d by the insurers, not the state. However, the state does not have an accurate estimate of the cost of such in surance for motorcyclists since no company curre ntl y offers th is type of coverage. Regarding the proposed legislation, AMA Legi slat ive Affairs Specia list J im Bensberg said. "This legislation is ill-conceived. unnecessary and discriminatory. Not only would this proposal dramatically increase the costs of ins uring a motorcycle in Mary~ land. it would set a dangerous precedent for other states to follow. For these reasons. the AMA will lobby against\the proposal on behalf of motorcycles in Maryland and riders across the country. T he five-ro u nd Carls bad Winter Short Track Series gets underway at southern California's Carlsbad Raceway on Saturday night, February 17 a n d run s every other Saturda y through April 14. Joe Winston tells Papa that "ol d timers" now have two classes to compete in: the Vet class for riders 30 to 40, and the Super Senior class for riders over 40 years of age. For more information on the dirt track races, call Dirt Sport Promotions at 619/ 489-5823. For informatio n on the "old tim er " classes, call Win ston at 714/7680822. ' The American Motorcycle Institute (AMI ) of Daytona Beach. Florida. will host the Brute Horsepower Shootout March 6 -9 at their facility next to Daytona International Speedway. Entrants will compete for $1000 in cash and prizes. The horsepower of each entrant's motorcycle will be ' determined by using AMI's computerized dynomometer. At week's end. the Brute Horsepower Shootout champ will be crowned. the honor going to the person whose motorcycle registered the most horsepower. Dyno readings will be conducted from 10 a .m. to 3 p.m. daily at AMI. · For more information. call 904/ 255-0295. Resul ts from the 250cc Beginner class were omitted from last week's coverage of the Jan uary 27 CMC Golden State Nationals at Adelanto, Califor- nia. Aaron Athanas (Suz) won fol-. lo wed by J osep h Brown (Yam), Da r in Nis himura (Kaw), Bria n Bonds (Yam) and John Lombardo (H on). Keith Day and Steve Eklund will join regu lar Eaken-Sponseller Racing team member Dan Ingram aboard the team's Hondas in the Daytona Dirt Track Series that takes place during Daytona Cycle Week. Day is seeking a ride for the Daytona 200. If you have a ride open. call Tim Torrecillas at 408/ 663-3517. NAMED: Matt H ilgenberg of Long Beach, Californi a, and John Han of Dumont , New Jersey, as assistant MX coordi nators for the American H istoric Racing M otorcycle Association (AH RMA); for information on . AHRMA MX activities west of the Mississippi, contact Hilgenberg at 213/ 490-0012; for eas tern events, contact Hart at 201/385-5595. BORN: Jake Peter Ballington. son . of four-time World Champion road racer Kork Ballington and his wife Bronwyn in La Mesa. Califomia. on January 30. SIG N ED: Road racer T omm y Lynch, a two-year helmet contract with AGV; Lynch, who will compete in AMA Superbike an d Supersport races this year for the Yoshi m ura Suzuki team, joins Doug Polen , Scott Russell and Dale Quarterly on the . list of AGV-spo nsored riders. SPONSORED: Tsubaki will be the chain sponsor of both the Fast By Ferracci and Muzzy R&D road race teams in 1990; Ferracci will field a Ducati 851 for, defending AMA Superbike Series champ Jamie James and bikes for other riders in Pro Twins competition; Muzzy will prepare Kawasaki ZX• 6s and ZX-7s for Superbike and Supersport competition with the riding chores handled by Doug Chandler, Scott Russell and 1989 ' Daytona 200 winner John Ashmead . SIGNED: A thr ee-year con tract by Dennis Smith an d partner Terry Newby of T orrance, Californiabased Vance & Hines Sport Services with Dun lop T ires, to provide road ra ce tires to racers west of th e Mississippi. MOVED: Trackaide Photo. effective February 20. to 7410 Midfie ld Ave.. Los Angeles. CA 90045 (mailing address: P.O. Box 91767. Los Angeles, CA 90009). 213/609-1772. . NAMED: Kal-Gard as the official race oil for the CMC Western States MX Cham pion ships, U.S. Amateur MX Nationals and Spring Champions hi p MX Series. APPOINTED : Mike Bailey. by AXO Sport-America of Valencia. California. as Northwest (Washington and Oregon) field manager. RES IG NED : R ich ard Fra n klin, Spectro Oils West sales manager, effective February 9. APPOINTED: Rod Anastasia to the position of sales/marketing director for Sinisalo USA. a div ision of Vale'ncia. California-based AXO Sport America. Inc.; Anastasia. who was formerly marketing director for Answer Products. replaces Jackie Mitchell. who has returned to his home state of Indiana. reportedly to join his family's business.